Johnson Ex Rel. Johnson v. Hackett’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Gibson v. City of Chicago (1990), Martinez v. Colon (1995)
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Screws v. United States · United States v. Classic · Douglas v. City of Jeannette
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It is the nature of the act performed, not the clothing of the actor or [, if the actor is a police officer,] even the status of being on duty, or off duty which determines whether the officer has acted under color of law.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The private right to enjoy integrity of reputation (the law of libel and slander) and the public right to tranquility * * * are matters of state concern. Beauharnais v. People of State of Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 , 72 S.Ct. 725 , 96 L.Ed. 919 * * * (1952). * * * Common law slander by a public official is not within the ambit of civil rights protected under the Constitution.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any * * * person * * * to the deprivation of any rights,' privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.